Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

ELKHORN STATION.
regularly inspected, like those of a well regulated
army, and any lack of care in this regard is followed
by a fine, and is charged to the account of the careless camp-keeper.
When the camp breaks up in the spring, the skits
used during the winter for lodges being thoroughly
dried and smoked by lodge fires, they do not shrink
by water like new hides, and are cut up and made
into moccasins. This is an important condition, as
trappers are very much in the water. A new hide
would shrink after becoming dry, so that it would
be useless for this purpose without being soaked
eachtime after becoming dry. The trapper, for the
same reason, is obliged to remove the bottom of his
buckskin breeches and replace them with blanket
leggings, which he wears during the trapping season.
Life in the Rocky Mountains at this time (1836)
was one constant battle ground, and a rigid military
discipline had to be constantly maintained. Constant vigilance all over the country was truly the
price of life and property.
The frequent incidents of a trapper's life filrnishes material which needs little embellishment to
make interesting narrations, both to while away
the winter evening in the camp, and to somewhat
astonish the far away reader in his secure and happy
home.
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